up wid ye! Not dead, just got really busy with work as we're expanding and doing a phone system upgrade. FINALLY started the tear down after getting some of the junk out of my garage (as you can see, lots left)

- hand break is proper fubar, cable was snapped in accident and bent- choke is broken too and is the speedo cable- my god the tires on this are bald... why/how did I drive it like this - as seen in pic below, I've got oil coming out the side of it on the site she was dropped on. That looks fun. - a lot of surface rust - frame seems to be ok on visual inspection, the forks look like they took the brunt of the accident.- rim looks ok, but will do closer inspection.

I'll post some pictures when I get them off. I'm sure there is damage to the rim and brake discs. I need to get some gloves. My hands were completely covered in grease, oil and dirt. Not that it's a bad thing.

As Volker said, the filter cover "mod" may have made the bike run better.

My '79 runs better with no filter cover (with bigger jets). Many people with CV carbs report that their bikes run better with a less-restrictive plenum and factory jetting.

A little off-topic, but what kind of phone system upgrade are you doing? I just oversaw a phone upgrade at work -- we opened a new corporate office and installed VoIP phones running over the data network back to the main building.

Got an hour in last night, got the front brakes off and bled the brake lines (though there was not much left). I started taking off the headlight and disconnecting the signals from the forks, but was feeling wiped after a long day at work, so I decided to start the drain the bowls... Got the first screw out and pitch black liquid came out. I decided to plug it back up because I'd probably lose track of time and be out there till the wee hours. I'll be working on the draining all of them this evening after I get some nitrile gloves as it's taking me 5 minutes to get all the grease/dirt/grime off.

We're migrating our CS1000M to an 1000E HA (redundant offsite core, redundant MAS servers and Avaya CCMS servers, etc). It's currently a four cabinet monster that was an option 61c in it's previous life. They're side by side right now and we're building the new one (minus a few cards that need to be migrated over). We're running 5 sites off one switch currently connected in via dedicated LAN extensions that's a mix of TDM sets and VOIP. Sounds like you know all about the fun of doing this type of stuff. Which is why it's going to be nice to escape to my bike in the evenings when I get it up and running.